Word: martyrdoms
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...wondered whether Mohler meant civil disobedience. "Christians have to think carefully and clearly as to how to be faithful," he said. "It could lead to civil disobedience. It could lead to the acceptance of the [civil] penalty. In the history of Christianity it has led to martyrdom." He laughed. "I'm not jumping there," he said. I told him he had jumped. He replied that martytrdom was not something that currently applied. He also noted that Christians on the more liberal side of the spectrum might feel as he does, but about questions of war and non-violence...
...army occupying south Lebanon. Perhaps most of all, they relied heavily on their Islamic faith, accepting the will of God on matters of life and death, defeat and victory. For these fighters, victory was assured because they had God on their side. But even defeat would have meant their martyrdom in battle, thus an even greater honor...
...Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, making Nasrallah the first Arab commander in chief who could claim a victory over Israel. It came at a personal price: in 1997 his eldest son was killed by Israeli shellfire in southern Lebanon after Nasrallah encouraged him to go there and fight. "Martyrdom is the best way of passing to the eternal world," he said in remarks published by an Iranian newspaper two weeks ago. "I am sure that my son is in paradise with God Almighty...
...preferences diluted by compromise. In contrast, in the UK the opposition party forms a (theoretically) coherent set of policies that explicitly set out party-wide policy goals. Now, since I’ve come in full circle—from condemning the Tory right for its obsession with ideological martyrdom to lamenting the American system that fails to provide any ideological consistency—have I contradicted myself? No, because this circle can be squared. In the U.S. we idealize bipartisanship as if it were the same thing as moderation, when in fact it is the result of incoherent party...
...Clutching their walkie-talkies, the unarmed plainclothes fighters duck back into the narrow winding alleyways, keeping to the shadows. "We have a love for martyrdom, but we also have a love for life and we don't want to die," says Abu Mohammed, a wiry, bearded elementary school teacher in normal life who first picked up a rifle for Hizballah in 1985. He and his comrade Haj Rabieh, a baseball cap-wearing schoolteacher who has fought Israel since 1982, are part of Hizballah's military network in south Lebanon and they recently spoke to TIME and a few other Western...